Comments on: Installing Oracle XE under Debian/(K)Ubuntu is easier than Windowshttps://technology.amis.nl/2006/06/01/installing-oracle-xe-under-debiankubuntu-its-easier-than-windows/
Friends of Oracle and JavaThu, 08 Dec 2016 12:38:46 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7By: Borkur Steingrimssonhttps://technology.amis.nl/2006/06/01/installing-oracle-xe-under-debiankubuntu-its-easier-than-windows/#comment-3377
Sun, 06 May 2007 02:21:41 +0000http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1218#comment-3377I do wish installing OBIEE on Ubuntu had been as easy. 🙂 But I did manage in the end …
You can read about it on my blog: http://www.be-ice.eu/

cheers,
Borkur

]]>By: Matt Bunterhttps://technology.amis.nl/2006/06/01/installing-oracle-xe-under-debiankubuntu-its-easier-than-windows/#comment-3376
Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:13:53 +0000http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1218#comment-3376There are some great docs to get the newbie up and running at :

]]>By: Andre Cronehttps://technology.amis.nl/2006/06/01/installing-oracle-xe-under-debiankubuntu-its-easier-than-windows/#comment-3375
Fri, 02 Jun 2006 12:41:40 +0000http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1218#comment-3375I installed Oracle 10gR2 enterpise edition on Fedora Core 5. Bit more difficult, but until now it runs perfectly.
The main trick is that you have to modify a linking script before the linking step starts. And you have to fool the installer that you are running RedHat4. I found a perfect howto at:http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/10g/OracleDB10gR2InstallationOnFedora5.php
]]>By: Marco Gralikehttps://technology.amis.nl/2006/06/01/installing-oracle-xe-under-debiankubuntu-its-easier-than-windows/#comment-3374
Fri, 02 Jun 2006 01:17:39 +0000http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1218#comment-3374One ever tried to secure (correctly install) oracle software under Windows without using local admin… Windows Linux = BIG difference (i like ux)
]]>By: Jeroen van Wilgenburghttps://technology.amis.nl/2006/06/01/installing-oracle-xe-under-debiankubuntu-its-easier-than-windows/#comment-3373
Thu, 01 Jun 2006 15:25:15 +0000http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1218#comment-3373Under Windows you had to find and download the .exe and tell Oracle that you’re not a friend of Osama Bin Laden. But the difference is not too big, you’re right about taht, installation of XE under Windows can be done with a few clicks.
]]>By: Niall Litchfieldhttps://technology.amis.nl/2006/06/01/installing-oracle-xe-under-debiankubuntu-its-easier-than-windows/#comment-3372
Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:23:44 +0000http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1218#comment-3372Hi

I agree that it is simple and reliable, I’m not sure that I’d agree that it was easier than windows though, that is just a double click on a downloaded .exe and off you go.

]]>By: Wouter van Reevenhttps://technology.amis.nl/2006/06/01/installing-oracle-xe-under-debiankubuntu-its-easier-than-windows/#comment-3371
Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:19:49 +0000http://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=1218#comment-3371I did the same thing a few weeks ago. One of the problems I ran into was this.

The Oracle XE Debian package by default installs all files into /usr/lib/oracle. On my system I didn’t have enough space on the partition that contained /usr/lib so I created a symlink from /usr/lib/oracle to another partition and then installed Oracle XE.
The installation went OK, but running the “oracle-xe configure” part generated loads of errors. Only when I resized the partition and made sure enough disk space was available, everything went OK.

Please note there also is an Oracle XE Client package available. On my Debian desktop pc I have installed this package. After that, I manually had to create a network/admin directory in the client install dir and add a tnsnames.ora file to that containing the correct configuration for my XE database. After modifying my .bashrc file in my home dir to always load the settings in the oraenv.sh script I can now use sqlplus from the command line to connect to my XE database using the SID specified in tnsnames.ora 🙂